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  1. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Of course I have to chime in that I ordered the BWMJV autotbio when it came out (direct from the goat farm, scribbled and dedicated). I really liked it (duh). He keeps kay fabe to a certain extent but assumes that the reader is smartened up to a degree. He talks about his hep outbreak and the reasons why he (and others) switched feds and gimmicks. He sometimes refers to certain events and things but doesn't give the details which irks me. He talks about his personal yoga techniques that keep him supple but won't give the secrets - I like to think that is because a Shaolin shaman who guards the hidden wisdoms. Anyway, if you are a fan of Mr. V and that era (which is a pretty long era) you will dig this. It is written in a conversational style and has lots of good pics. Thee Rev likes big books and lots of details and funky dancing, so a big thumbs up. MERCY BABY DADDY, RAF
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    I am too blue to go rooting in the basement. Poems from the now, folks. (04/24/20 0309) ----------------------------------------------- I watched the first five minutes, then the last seven, pressed the "like" button. (0312) ----------------------------------------------- Rick Martel: better worker than Dino Bravo, but without cheap smokes. (0316) ------------------------------------------------ Tommy Rich pulled a knife on me. I was honored - Ex-champ. True story. (0319) -------------------------------------------- Baby Doll, I heard, was a dirty jezebel. Dusty told us so. (0321) -------------------------------------------- now I am blue and tired, RAF
  3. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Stop the madness. - RAF (who would gladly wear a jacket like that but with Jimmy Valiant or Dusty Rhodes or the North-South Connection on it) p.s. - Happy Anniversary Mr. Triple HHH
  4. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Who would buy that? I mean, I have a vivid imagination and decent logic skills, and I cannot conceive of a person or situation where this is exchanged for money. - RAF
  5. thee Reverend Axl Future
    INDY DARLING GETS CALLED UP Puro? Yes, but he can't work these big crowds: his small moves, facials, patter. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ITEMS LEFT AT AN EMPTY LOCKERROOM, 1985 Wet towels, used gigs, dirty needles, beer cans and empty Sno Seals. (2007) --------------------------------------------------------------- SCENES FROM A SHOOT PANDEMIC: DEAR MR MCMAHON You're really going to go back live? Contract slave! But Cody? Et tu? (04/22/20) - RAF
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    Man, I wish I still had the VHS tape with the Humongus/Roberts feud on it, so action packed and expertly booked. It got great coverage in the Apter mags as well. The idea that Lord H's mask made him immune to the DDT was brilliant, with Jake using a cattle prod as an equalizer, zapping LH through the eyehole & making him discard the mask and finally - BANG!!, that climactic DDT. I only see a penultimate cage match online. Ah well... - RAF p.s. Mr. Roberts being the machine here, but Van Camp is no slacker. This is the later feud from Mid-South, which I think was not as involved or long as the SWCW/Continental one (facts subject to my bad memory).
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    Ring jacket in a dead worker's closet, soon to go to a thrift store. ------------------------------------- The boots with spats on them are rare now; rodeo style are defunct. --------------------------------------- Ludwig Borga sat in the gym. He thinks that he wants a cigarette.. (circa 2008) - RAF
  8. thee Reverend Axl Future
    And the Weaver Sleeper vs. the Raschke Iron Claw at the end! - RAF
  9. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Over time, I have come to love all of Bautista's girl tattoos. real talk, RAF
  10. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Less workers these days smoke cigars, more ask for egg white omelets. For shame. --------------------------------------------- A gigger, thirteen dollars and a 'lude: inside Buzz Sawyer's pockets. ---------------------------------------------- At the indie card, all I saw were kids who learned from video tapes. (02/06) ------------------------------------------------ "Night And The City" - sleazy Brit mat dealings. Stanislaus: so sad.... (04/20/20) - RAF
  11. thee Reverend Axl Future
    If Lou Albano's gym bag could talk, it would say "Vodka bottles fit". ------------------------------------------------------- Taping up a knee and chewing a Tylenol, five minutes to bell. --------------------------------------------- I never had doubts about the efficacy of Regal's cravat. --------------------------------------------- Bill Dundee passed on his carny lore, not morals. Too busy with Elvis. (02/02/06) - RAF
  12. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Attention OSJohn... - RAF
  13. thee Reverend Axl Future
    A great match can come from the most basic moves, provided they are executed well and used to tell a story. A brawl like this that get the viewer involved emotionally is so much better than a thrill-ride of big moves that all work to erode one's suspension of disbelief. And, sweet Vishnu, that double punch at 10:21 is magnificent. - RAF
  14. thee Reverend Axl Future
    DSteinborn told many illuminating and amusing tales in the great Whatever Happened to...? publication. Even if you were too young to have seen him at all, his stories preserved core elements of the biz that he was there for. It also stood out how much his peers respected him. - RAF
  15. thee Reverend Axl Future
    VCRs that load from the top captured many historic pinfalls. -------------------------------------------- The Hell's Angels (the tag team, not the gang) were great. What a dark gimmick. --------------------------------------------- Crazy Saint, running free through the casino, no worries - Herb Abrams. ---------------------------------------------- Iron-on letters run down sweaty tights: true folk art in fast motion. (02/01/06) - RAF
  16. thee Reverend Axl Future
    All the Fritz Von Erich goodness at the Matches =/= Now folder made me want to see one of my fave rasslin pics again: FVE vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis, Ellis over-gigs whilst in Thee Iron Claw and slices Fritzie's hand, adding to the red red krovvy and delighting the vampires like me. so fabulous, RAF
  17. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Ernie Roth knew where to get Superstar's boas for cheap - that's his job. -------------------------------------------- The ref (in carny) tells the heel where the hard parts of rhe ring are. -------------------------------------------- Inside Wrestling's Top Ten "Most Dangerous Wrestlers" list - Funk is there. ------------------------------------------ Johnny Valentine listened to opera and so did the whole car. -------------------------------------------- Wrestling nerds debate "work rate"; the spirits of old hookers weep shoot tears. (2006) - RAF
  18. thee Reverend Axl Future
    THIS is a great indy heel gimmick no one has ever done. A variation on the "I am better than you (the opponent & audience) because I have more money than you" but "I am better because I have more dolls than all of you" - the Biggest Nerd Heel! He could bring in rare collectibles and not let people touch it, the babyface could de-mintify the packaging to get Ryder angry, skits where he sells counterfeits to orphans... Book it! - dolls, RAF
  19. thee Reverend Axl Future
    There is a peak era joshi match where (I believe) Bison Kimura flings aside one of the many bouquets the innocent ring girls have brought her with the exact right amount of heelish insouciance -- it gets me every time. - RAF
  20. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Maybe, but perhaps you never had to sit through one of this big lug's snoozefrest lumbering (NOT clubberin') matches. Admittedly he had a name, and a decent promo, but at least the tail end of his career was painful. You can piss off a crowd and not get heat. The contradictory heat from saying you are thee One True Giant when you are clearly shorter that Andre is good heat, but your lack of mobility and ability is not. Just like a good worker can inflame a crowd with excessive stalling, a weak worker can lose an audience and ruin the flow of the bout. I am disputing your Theory here for the Reality of actually watching this mishegoss. I saw Big John Studd vs Jules Strongbow/George Wells/et al. and all I got was this post, RAF
  21. thee Reverend Axl Future
    Aja Kong made her tough Ainu ancestors proud with her heel tactics. --------------------------------------------- Killer Kowalski could work a crowd, but couldn't face his own baldness. --------------------------------------------- The Fargo Strut must never die. Take every chance to do it yourself. ------------------------------------------------ Bill Apter spread the photos out on the desk; the story would follow. (all circa 2005-06) ----------------------------------------------- Dean R: more comics!!! The ones with your daughter's art - the word "paunts", I use. (04/15/20) - RAF
  22. thee Reverend Axl Future
    I luurrvvv the pre-match demure & subdued interviews, and then the screamy Amazonian deluge. All four are icons. - RAF
  23. thee Reverend Axl Future
    2020 sucks for us all. Remember the Australian Wildfires? We don't even talk about that anymore. 2020 has sucked for me. Last week I was looking for some blank journals for my kid to sketch in (she's a drawing machine) from one of the many bins in the basement. She gave me back a plain black one a couple days later, saying it had writing in it already. It contained some poetry, mostly haiku, that I used to obsessively compose during my downtime when I still was creative. I often find piles of club flyers or newspaper pages or pocket notepads full of scrawled doggerel. I fancied doing a zine of it, even. Anyway, here are some examples. Please contribute. Let your freak flag fly, be formal or spontaneous, serious or humorous, no judgments (just like therapy)... -------------------------------------------- The greatest moment / of impact: one inch before / the leg drop connects. -------------------------------------------- The mantle of bleached / blonde tresses is a crown of / genius carny thorns. -------------------------------------------- Los Gringos Locos: / real heat that would burn up / an indy worker. ---------------------------------------------- A stiff chair shot to / the skull - sure beats working ar / Walmart 'til you die. ---------------------------------------------- Black Bart chose to buy / a new duster instead of / resoling his boots. ----------------------------------------------- circa 2005, RAF
  24. thee Reverend Axl Future
    He was trained by Eddie Sharkey, so maybe they were waiting for the magic to happen, or maybe it was a job lot. - RAF
  25. thee Reverend Axl Future
    This has been a mystery to me as well. If we found out he was gym buddies with a main-eventer or had the same trainer as the booker. He was even more useless than The Warlord. - RAF
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